Schedule

Schedule

10:00am: Breakfast

11:00am: DOMA & Federalism Panel

12:30-12:45pm: Lunch served

12:45-2:15pm: Lunch + Defending LGBT Rights in Socially Conservative States panel

2:15-2:45pm: Break + refreshments

2:45pm-4:15pm: Geography of LGBT Life and Law

4:15-5pm: Transition to dinner

5pm-7pm: Dinner + Keynote by Richard Wilson (Partner, Grund & Leavitt)

7:30pm-until: Drinks at Tommy Doyles

Panels & Speakers

DOMA, Federalism, and LGBT Rights: Should Equality Be Left to the States?

Martha Minow (moderator), the Dean and Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Barbara Cox, Clara Shortridge Foltz Professor of Law, California Western School of Law, San Diego

Brian Boyle, Associate, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr (Boston, MA)

Joseph Singer, Bussey Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Janson Wu, Staff Attorney, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) (Boston, MA)

Defending LGBT Rights in Socially Conservative States

Sarah Downer (moderator), Redstone Fellow, Family and Children’s Law Practice Unit, WilmerHale Legal Services Center (Jamaica Plain, MA)

Cliff Johnson, Partner, Pigott & Johnson and Mississippi Coordinating Counsel for Lambda Legal (Jackson, MS)

Aaron Tidman, Litigation Associate, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP (Washington, DC)

Judith Sperling-Newton, Attorney, The Law Center for Children & Families (Madison, WI)

Denise Brogan-Kator, Executive Director, Equality Michigan

The Geography of LGBT Family Life and Law

Erika Rickard (moderator), Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division of Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office

Joyce Kauffman, Founder, The Law Office of Joyce Kauffman (Cambridge, MA)

Richard Wilson, Partner, Grund & Leavitt (Chicago, IL)

Mitchell Katine, Founding Partner, Katine & Nechman LLP (Houston, TX)